Posted on 05/21/2023 7:10:40 PM PDT by DallasBiff
CARRIZO PLAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. — The roads are still rutted where rainwater carved them and farms are still flooded down the valley, but here in California's largest remaining grassland, the benefits of the state's destructively wet winter are on full display.
And they're spectacular.
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Yep. We need to bust this state into pieces so that our votes count.
I see this all over California
Just beautiful
On the San Francisco peninsula, you still see the destruction of the pummeling of a dozen “atmospheric rivers” and gale force winds. There are still trees uprooted and snapped off everywhere. In our area, five people died from falling trees including a young mom on a Scout hike with her seven year old son at Rancho San Antonio. The poor boy had to witness his mom getting killed by a falling tree at the park.
I get your point, but these were destructive storms. The bloom around the area is gorgeous. I’ve never seen so many California poppies as I have this year.
Nature will always win - once man stops trying to ‘fix’ it.
Nature will always heal itself - once man stops trying to ‘fix’ it.
And I walked the MROSD trails for years in the late ‘80s-early 90’s when *gasp* there were the storms of ‘92 that allowed me to be skiing at Alpine on July 5th. In powder.
Don't recall a lotta falling trees but then I didn't go up there either during or just after storms. Just good sense, and I don't like hiking in the rain or wind.
What I think is really happening is that as usual, “Californians” - you know, from Mumbai/Guangdong/Mexico City; The Real Californians - have no idea where they are, what it's actually like, what its actually been like, or anything at all other then “Must buy Townhome in Mountain View, Must move up to house in Cupertino as soon as possible”.
But hey, let's not just indict the Invader cohort. “Native” Californians are just as bad: they drink their own KoolAid.
All of these people buy the lie: Climate Change, it's getting warmer, no more rain, no more snow, blah blah BS.
Then when it inevitably comes back, they're shocked, I tell you, Shocked! And they go out and do stupid crap...like driving through flooded creeks, skiing out of bounds (Northstar), not preparing for the inevitable because they were told it was never gonna happen again...by wild eyed morons.
The “atmospheric rivers” are simply ordinary storms been going on here for thousands of years. The propagandists at NOAA, NASA and the East Anglia CRU simply hype everything to make it seem abnormal. And they depend on poor memory to do that: recall the winter of 2016-2017 AND 2018-2019 when mudslides took out Hwy 17 for weeks? And all the other roads in the coastal range?
Nah, hardly anyone remembers. That was all of 4-6 years ago.
Like Newsom saying that we had so much water that it would carry us through a five year drought. Then he squandered it, and Oh Woe is Me, we were in another “water shortage catastrophe” again.
Recall this year that the piers at Capitola and Santa Cruz were both damaged, necessitating the visit of the Great Imposter with his contingent of Osprey's and Blackhawk helicopters. Well:
- Both piers were already due for major maintenance since they were re-built long ago after suspiciously similar events of 80 and 110 years ago. Guess all those tin lizzies were putting too much CO2 out, huh?
- The Capitola event was serendipitous: the wind came up at high tide and the swell met the storm high output of the Soquel Creek right at the beach, leading to backwash that pummeled the restaurants on the Esplanade. Which, coincidentally, are maybe a few feet above the high tide mark, and it has happened before. Did they prepare for it? Of course not! What, me worry?
The point is that sensationalist crap phrases like “Bomb cyclone” or “atmospheric river” are just that: crap. It's all happened before, the meteorologists of the day just didn't have a mindset to label it that way. “El Nino” didn't even become a household word until well into the ‘80s, and then it was Responsible for Everything.
Another poster up the thread got it right: the normal cyclic behavior of seasonal weather in California is multiple years of low rainfall punctuated by one or two years of massive precipitation. This biases the average high, and when you don't see “average” rain for a few years then it becomes The End of the World!
More hysteria from the CaliNut plantation.
And they even have a Get Out of Jail Card: it's the nefarious “extreme weather”, ominously cautioned by the High Priests of Climate Change. Never mind that they meant that in the context of single event storms, not a full season of continuous Wx. But hey, if a failed baseball star / bar owner like Groovy Gavin says it, it must be troo!
The winter of ‘23 proved that the entire anthropogenic Climate Change rap is a full on hoax, a giant mistake pushed by kiddies running simulations. There ARE some effects at the local level: heat island induced micro climate changes, and glacier melt due to soot pollution. The glacier melt can actually be a serious input to “climate”, but the original predictions of two decades ago have not come true - they are reduced in size but not gone. Possibly they will recover, but that will take decades if not centuries.
But the overall climate is acting about like it always has. The small perturbations we have put into the atmosphere are not doing anything like what they say. And the real problem in California is a longage of people and big farms, not the weather.
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